Bree Putman 🐍🦎🏘🔥

Team #Ctenosaura absolutely crushed it! I’m so impressed with them on conceptualizing a study, collecting and analyzing data, presenting results and writing a research report in just a couple of days (& thanks to the lizards of course). Congrats team!

Major #rattlesnake find on last night’s Herp walk 🐍🙌. Crotalus simus in the dry tropical forest.

Excited to be back in #CostaRica - this time at the beautiful Palo Verde wetlands - for the @tropicalstudies Tropical Biology course. I’m working with students on spiny-tailed iguana research. 🦎🌴😎

Im honored to have co-mentored Julian as part of the research training program (UNLAB) at @NHMLA. He presented his work at the end-of-year symposium in the new museum Commons and his talk was EXCELLENT! Congrats on all the hard work.

Our article is finally published in The American Biology Teacher on ways to use animal behavior data from @inaturalist photos in college classes. doi.org/10.1525/abt.20…

I’m in downtown Long Beach for the Global Sustainable Insurance Summit speaking about wildfires🔥, biodiversity 🌎, and INSURANCE 📈!!! A great networking and outreach opportunity along the beautiful bay!

The @lbcurrent made a video of our urban lizard research highlighting student involvement on campus! We are studying the impact of irrigation on animal hydration 💦🦎. Check it out: youtu.be/REnrrAi-0vg?fe…

We had a crazy week catching and processing hundreds of lizards from 11 SoCal colleges for our Cool Lizards in the City project! We are seeing if irrigation impacts animal hydration…will urban lizards be less dehydrated? With @snakeymama and Kinsey Brock. Stay tuned!

My favorite #lizard profiled in the LA Times with commentary by yours truly! Just in time for the #CityNatureChallenge! latimes.com/environment/st…

The major find on our first @CSULB Herpetology field trip - a cute 🥰 CA King Snake 🐍 . Every student had to hold it! #LearnByDoing #OvercomingFears #SnekFriends

I’m featured in the CSULB newspaper @lbcurrent! I’m excited to start working with LB students on reptile biology! lbcurrent.com/artslife/2025/…

Excellent work conducted by CSUSB students @UrquidiRae @citrinepoppy and Bayley Stevens (not on X)

Starting off my 1st semester at @CSULB with a new article in Ecology and Evolution on ventral patch sizes in urban western fence lizards. Urban lizards had larger relative throat patches than non-urban lizards! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7…

I’m excited to announce the successful thesis defenses of Elmer and Emily - the first BREE Lab students to attain their masters degree! It’s been an honor to share our journeys at CSUSB together.

Do you have HOBO temp/humidity data loggers we can borrow for a study on lizard ecophysiology in urban areas? Please let us know 🙏🙏🙏 and spread the word!

Our TREE paper on leveraging #ArtificialIntelligence to improve evidence synthesis in #conservation is now out! It’s been an honor to be part of this esteemed group of 🌎 international researchers. authors.elsevier.com/a/1j8oNcZ3X04qM

Congrats to Elmer for successfully proposing his thesis today! He has worked so hard on this project and it’s been a pleasure to see him grow into an excellent field biologist over the years. 🌲🦎🔥

Read about BREE Lab member Daisy’s research in the new #CSUSB grad student research blog! She is looking at how urbanization affects #lizard morphology and performance. 🦎🏃‍♀️tinyurl.com/27usuudb

@hippieherper @kb_kinsey Congrats 🎉

Now that all the paper work is filed, I’m excited to officially announce I’ve accepted a PhD position at San Diego State with @kb_kinsey beginning this fall! Stay tuned to see what we can uncover about urban evolution and ecology of reptiles! 🐍

@evornithology Not today!

@breeput I scouted that spot as a potential Phainopepla site! See any there?

Checking pitfall traps today at Boyd Deep Canyon with #Herpetology students. We found more mammal species than herps 😂, but a beautiful day in the desert. Lots of #CityNatureChallenge observations!